Patents by Inventor Navin Sivanandam

Navin Sivanandam has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11580460
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for replacing a listing of a canceled booking for a guest user. In an embodiment, an accommodation management system receives an indication that a booking by the guest user has been canceled. The system retrieves, from an attribute database, attributes of the canceled listing and maps each attribute to a set of similar attributes in an equivalence table. The system retrieves, from a listing database, a set of comparable listings, each of which includes one or more of the mapped similar attributes and available during the same time period as the canceled booking. The system books one of the comparable listings for the guest user during the time period by populating a booking data structure with a connection between the comparable listing and the guest user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Airbnb, Inc.
    Inventors: Navin Sivanandam, Christian Aurelio Goldammer, Michael Andrew Hinckley
  • Patent number: 11574257
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for replacing an accommodation of a canceled booking for a guest user. In an embodiment, an accommodation management system receives, from a homestay application, an indication that a booking for the accommodation in a region by the guest user over a time period has been canceled. The system retrieves a homestay listing associated with the booking and retrieves attributes of the homestay listing. The system maps each attribute to a set of similar attributes in an equivalence table. The system retrieves a set of available hotel listings in the region for the same time period and determines attributes of each available hotel listing. The system determines a set of comparable hotel listings that each include similar attributes to the homestay listing and sends a command to book a comparable hotel listing the guest user during the time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Airbnb, Inc.
    Inventors: Navin Sivanandam, Christian Aurelio Goldammer, Michael Andrew Hinckley
  • Publication number: 20210279646
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for replacing a listing of a canceled booking for a guest user. In an embodiment, an accommodation management system receives an indication that a booking by the guest user has been canceled. The system retrieves, from an attribute database, attributes of the canceled listing and maps each attribute to a set of similar attributes in an equivalence table. The system retrieves, from a listing database, a set of comparable listings, each of which includes one or more of the mapped similar attributes and available during the same time period as the canceled booking. The system books one of the comparable listings for the guest user during the time period by populating a booking data structure with a connection between the comparable listing and the guest user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Navin Sivanandam, Christian Aurelio Goldammer, Michael Andrew Hinckley
  • Publication number: 20210279647
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for replacing an accommodation of a canceled booking for a guest user. In an embodiment, an accommodation management system receives, from a homestay application, an indication that a booking for the accommodation in a region by the guest user over a time period has been canceled. The system retrieves a homestay listing associated with the booking and retrieves attributes of the homestay listing. The system maps each attribute to a set of similar attributes in an equivalence table. The system retrieves a set of available hotel listings in the region for the same time period and determines attributes of each available hotel listing. The system determines a set of comparable hotel listings that each include similar attributes to the homestay listing and sends a command to book a comparable hotel listing the guest user during the time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Navin Sivanandam, Christian Aurelio Goldammer, Michael Andrew Hinckley
  • Publication number: 20210279648
    Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for replacing a canceled accommodation for a guest user using reserved accommodations. In an embodiment, an accommodation management system retrieves information describing historical bookings and listings for accommodations in a region. The system determines common attributes of the listings and a historical cancelation rate of bookings. The system determines an amount of listings to reserve for a time period based on the historical cancelation rate and moves, from an available listing database to a reserved listing database, the amount of listings for the region, each listing including common attributes. The system sends an indication to each host user of the moved listings that the listing has become unavailable for the time period. The system receives an indication that a booking for a guest user has been canceled and books one of the listings in the reserved listing database for the guest user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Navin Sivanandam, Christian Aurelio Goldammer, Michael Andrew Hinckley